This article was published 10 yearsKate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like Love…
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Confessions of a Design Geek
Time out enabled Jennifer Stafford to get back to basics
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Designer-maker Kate Colin transforms paper into intricate 3D forms
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like Love…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Eva Radulova takes a sympathetic approach to mass produced design
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like Love…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Michael Carroll’s furniture combines metal and wood to ingenious effect
This article was published 10 yearsKate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like Love…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Design PR quits her job to launch ‘Ruthless People’ furniture collection
This article was published 10 years Lisa McMillan, formerly of leading design PR agency Camron, has turned her back on a career in public relations to launch a six-piece furniture collection, entitled Ruthless People. The collection, which comprises a dining table, a stool, two mirrors, a side table and a…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Emma Buckley’s graduate collection is defined by experimentation
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like…
Confessions of a Design Geek
look like love :: tom hutchinson
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like…
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Iselin Lindmark Dubland’s side table is designed for “lazy sofa days”
This article was published 10 years Norwegian School of Art and Design (KHiB) graduate, Iselin Lindmark Dubland, has designed Birk, a coffee table with concealed storage for magazines, laptops and television remotes, and a removable tray perfect for TV dinners. The four-legged table is made of birch wood with a…
Confessions of a Design Geek
look like love :: sophie cobb
This article was published 11 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Kai Venus makes knives from reclaimed carpenters’ saws and chopping board off-cuts
This article was published 11 years Cornish designer Kai Venus makes his Upcycled Kitchen Knives by mounting blades from used carpenter’s saws onto leftover hardwood from his own range of chopping boards. “The high carbon spring steel used in saw blades provides a razor sharp edge, which it holds for…
Confessions of a Design Geek
interview :: amy isles freeman
This article was published 11 years Cornish artist and designer Amy Isles Freeman has taken a male-dominated part of the design industry and turned it on his head with her hand-painted hand-turned wooden bowls that celebrate femininity. We talked art school, feminism, and kindly neighbours… How did you get into…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Marcus Kane’s Tempo uses kinetic energy to produce 15 minutes of light
This article was published 11 years Central Saint Martin’s graduate Marcus Kane has developed a self-powered light that uses kinetic energy to generate 15 minutes of light at a time. Tempo is a circular wall light with an internal mechanic motor inside, powered by a user-operated counter-weight. When you pull…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Megan Czaja’s Oblio stool is designed for people who can’t sit still
This article was published 11 years Pratt Institute graduate Megan Czaja has designed a stool for ‘Kinesthetes’ – people who need to be active in order to think. The three-legged maple stool has a seat balanced on a silicone and foam half-sphere, which plugs into a maple convex base, without…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Megan Czaja’s Oblio stool is designed for people who can't sit still
This article was published 11 years Pratt Institute graduate Megan Czaja has designed a stool for ‘Kinesthetes’ – people who need to be active in order to think. The three-legged maple stool has a seat balanced on a silicone and foam half-sphere, which plugs into a maple convex base, without…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Morten Grønning Nielse’s ‘power glove’ enables people to sculpt wood with their fingertips
This article was published 11 years Royal College of Art graduate Morten Grønning Nielse has designed ‘Happaratus,’ a glove with vibrating abrasive pads on the tip of each finger to enable people to shape hard materials like wood, stone and concrete with their hands. Morten created what he describes as…
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A Day in the Life of the Benchmark Fixperts Resident
This article was published 11 years In this week’s column, Fixperts Resident Maya Alvarado shares another day looking for fixes at British furniture manufacturer Benchmark – this week she hunts for puffball mushrooms, makes a new handle for the fridge in the workshop kitchen, and meets up with local resident…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Julian Jay Roux takes a year out from Design Academy Eindhoven to learn his craft
This article was published 11 years Design Academy Eindhoven student Julian Jay Roux has taken a year out from his Industrial Design course to complete a one-year Contemporary Craft BA at Plymouth College of Art in the south west of England to explore the relationship and distinctions between design and…
Confessions of a Design Geek
Ellie Birkhead’s ambiguous brushes highlight Britain’s threatened crafts
This article was published 11 years University of Brighton graduate Ellie Birkhead has developed a collection of handmade brushes with ambiguous functions to draw attention to declining trades in the UK. The Brushes collection, which includes a double-headed brush, a circular brush with bristles pointing towards its centre, and a…